The Event Manager consolidates data from Symantec's antivirus and firewall products, as well as other companies' products, and provides a mile-high view of what the network-security systems are encountering.
Microsoft also announced earlier in October that the technology has a flaw that could be used by attackers to bypass a computer's security. Microsoft also plans in Service Pack 2 to turn on the Internet Connection Firewall, a basic form of...
Microsoft has released patches for three flaws, the most serious of which could give attackers a back door into the company's security server product. The flaw lies in the way a filter in the server product's firewall processes data formatted in...
Probably not the home PC users either, who may already have paid for antivirus and PC firewall protection and most of whom don't really understand the nature of the threat until they get to be victims.
For example, a revamped firewall is intended to keep attackers out and attempts to prevent malicious applications from connecting to the internet by requiring that the user give specific permission to each application.
Services for Unix includes tools to integrate Windows with Unix and Linux environments, while ISA Server is a firewall and Web caching product. The remaining two alerts are of 'moderate' risk and affect Windows Services for Unix, ISA Server and...